Abu Wahib was killed in his car in the shelling from the air.
Reports of his death several times already appeared, but then was not confirmed.
The airstrike was carried out in Anbar province at the car, which moved Abu Wahib with three accomplices.
Abu Wahib was a member of al-Qaeda arrested in Iraq and Pro-American government sentenced to death. However, in 2012, he managed to escape from custody.
Subsequently he engaged in banditry, killing passing through Iraq to the Syrian drivers of the trucks.